Recent content by Gorgon Zee

You are excluding the third option, which is that the result is not actually creative, and that it is simply a non-creative derivative. It’s not that the AI has been creative, or that you have. The result is simply not creative. If you photocopy a piece of art, neither you nor the photocopier...

I never said that. I said the prompt creator was NOT the creator. That does not mean that the AI is the creator. If you have been following the legal news on AI, you will note that that is indeed the current legal thinking.

That's a philosophical question that doesn't require AI to discuss. Much art is guided by a patron or client, but we don't tend to think of them as creators. We don't give them rights to the work unless they have explicit contracts to say they do. To me, when I look at The Last Supper, I never...

Just to be clear -- the building itself is copyright, not just the drawings. You cannot copy a building without permission if it is not in the public domain. No Falling Water knockoffs allowed for another 30 or so years ...

So, this is just not how AI art works. If it built an image for which you specified every pixel exactly, then your argument would have merit. However, you would not be using an AI because -- by definition -- they are using intelligence, not "just following direction". Your prompt for the engine...

It's a bit of a tangent, but could you back that up with a citation? My impression is that although the laws are different especially in how they evaluate impact, the basic principle that copyright covers the expression of the rules (the text, images and presentation) but not the underlying...

I would be as happy with that as “I use persuade” or “I use mind control”. If the player is not very experienced I’d let any of these slide, but after a while I’d urge them to let me know their intent. For me, that is the most important piece of info I need to adjudicate a mechanical element...

Similarly — I basically agree with you. Definitely the character does not know that the fun is in going insane, and I think it would be just as much a sour note if a player actively sought out those plots as it would be if they avoid it. For me, the genre of CoC is “weird things happen to...

But that's exactly what they are! They are a mechanical, formal way of quantifying how your character can interact with the world -- they are the "game" in roleplaying. For me, one of the reasons I like more modern systems as opposed to trad and OSR style games is that the newer games make an...

I do agree that it is not an absolute -- few things are! But my experience running CoC is that the genre shows people investigating randomly, reading odd journals etc. It's the rules that make it dangerous to the characters. Which is why I argue that saying that characters should act based on...

But the character exists IN the genre — the only understanding they should have is based on the genre, not on a simulation of the player’s world. I’d argue that if you are playing a game set in a a given genre, then your character should act as the genre dictates; if you, the player, are...

It's a very gamist way of playing, which is fine for many people. But it often feels like an artificial constraint imposed by the game system. As an example, if I'm in a group that is attending a fancy dress ball and I'm playing AD&D, if a guest invites me to head out alone with them to see...

One thing I do for situations like this is ask for everyone who wants to try to make a roll, then I look at the group successes and failures and adjudicate like that. So if 2 players notice the footprints and 2 do not, I might say something like “you think you saw something on the ground, but...

It appears you think that authorship is a zero-sum game; if the players get to do more, it means the GM gets less. That really, really has not been my experience. When my players author parts of our game, it drives my creativity, sparks new ideas and helps me author better. For me, a GM who...

Metacurrency as a mechanical resource This is the use of a currency as a resource; used to modify a mechanical effect. Like burning extra effort, a re-roll, an auto-success or a modification to a resolution technique. I'm generally a fan of this -- it gives a player a chance to signal when...